Category Archives for Thinking
Shlok Vaidya’s thinking.
Musharraf Continues To Dance
BBC – The tribe’s aren’t a fan of Musharraf and his selling out to the US – BBC’s Jonathan Beale in Washington says that, in the CBS interview, Gen Musharraf was deliberately distancing himself from the White House in the … Continue reading
More Stolen USG Laptops
CNN – The Commerce Department has lost 1,137 laptop computers since 2001, most of them assigned to the Census Bureau, officials said Thursday night. The Census Bureau, the main collector of information about Americans, lost 672 computers. Of those, 246 … Continue reading
Trenches As Walls?
CNN – Baghdad has a circumference of about 50 miles. Digging security trenches around Baghdad could help stop the city’s daily suicide bomb attacks, car bombs, drive-by shootings and sectarian killings, the Iraqi government believes. A trench network is one … Continue reading
Abu Musab al-Suri
Important piece in the New Yorker discussing the marginalized member of Al Qaeda who actually got it. AQ followed an obsolete model pre-9/11 and should understand its fleeting nature – “Al Qaeda is not an organization, it is not a … Continue reading
New Knowledge Workers
Fantastic article in S+B regarding future knowledge economy workers using Joi Ito as a model. Very much in line with my own thoughts on the subject. Some snippets: Core – In some ways, Mr. Ito’s style foreshadows the changing nature … Continue reading